Worrying sign of things to come?

AND it was all going so well... The day started badly for me and just got steadily worse. We left it late to leave London and after encountering traffic in the Midlands (where else?) and then again five miles from the ground, we just about made it to our seats as the team were kicking off. Being late for a game always makes me uncomfortable, knocks me out of my rhythm somehow, and I had a sense of foreboding right from the off.

The team we put out should have had no problem, but the performance was nothing short of shocking. With the exception of Drogba and Belletti, none of them looked as if they wanted to be out there.

There were squabbles going on between Mikel and Lampard, Lampard and Cech, Mikel and Essien which is never a good thing, and something we Chelsea fans have very rarely (if ever) seen under John Terry’s captaincy — but even he did little to calm the disputes or light a fire under the players.